In a day where “Bro Country” dominates the country music scene, Tyler Childers (Chill-ders), takes a more traditional approach and continues to innovate within the country music genre.

What Tyler Childers does differently is that he refuses to give in to what the mainstream country music singers and songwriters do. He keeps his roots in mind when writing his music and still retains an country sound in his music. He also still writes and performs all his own music which is a dying talent in this day and age of a newly pop-leaning sound.

At 19 Childers got his start when he released his first album Bottles and Bibles with limited success. But prior to all this at he had recorded two standalone songs that were later released as part of his breakthrough album Purgatory.

Childers now 29 has also started a charitable foundation that helps and assists undeserved and impoverished communities in the Appalachian region where Childers grew up. Many of his songs focus on the difficulty of growing up in a coal mining town, and the hardships faced such a community. He writes and sings about struggles he himself faced, as well as struggles of his friends and family.

Childers does not shy away from his native vocals and embraces who he is and embodies it in his music. He continues to innovate with sound, and refuses to give in to what country music is becoming. Rather he builds upon the tradional country sound with his own touch and experiences.